The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-10-16
THE FISHERIES ADO.
Tupper's Appointment as
Canada's Representative
AS.ONEOF THE COMMISSIONERS
mercial Union as the Only ~ cans
Of Do: aiming Relief.
The Fisheries Dispute.

TORONTO, October 15.-The Hail, IN an
editorial on Sir Charles Tupper's ap-
pointment as Canadian representative
on the fisheries commission, says at the
last session of Parliament Sir Charles
Upper gave the country to understand
that he, for one, was not prepared to
listen to reason on the fishery question;
on the contrary, he was in favor of
what may be termed a spirited cruiser
policy for the maintenance of Our hard
and fast interpretation of the treaty of
1878, and he cared nothing for American
threats of retaliation. He also let it be
understood he was more than ever con-
WINGED of the feasibility of Great
ing united and prosperous dominion
by means of the protective system. If
Sir Charles were still in this unenviable
frame of mind, we think we should
have good ground for challenging his
fitness to represent. US at Washington.
1t is said, however, that during his alb
sence in London, he made it his business
to study the whole situation. ASsum-
ing it is fair to conclude that, as an in
telligent man, he has not sought light
in vain, but is to take somewhat larger
views of things than he did
six months ago, and after reviewing
at length the condition, financial and
political, of Canada, since the confeder-
alton, the Nail continues: A radical
changeis necessary if the confederation
is to survive. If We are not mistaken
in supposing this view of the case is
shared at least to some extent by Sir
Charles, we shall probably not be wrong
in saying that he must regard the COM
mercial union as the only means short
of annexation by which we can obtain
relief. That it is the only way of settling
the fishery question is the conclusion
at which Mr.. Bayard has arrived, and at
which two English representatives on
the commission will no doubt be forced,
when they come to examine the hope
less complication into which the original
question has resolved itself. Sir Charles
will thus have it in his power to ter
inmate the long standing dispute with
the United States and to lift the
Dominion out of the slough by one and
the same stroke of craftsmanship. No
Canadian publican ever had a fairer
opportunity of serving his country, and
We beg him to remem6er that in the
nature of things it can never present it
self again."
The Globe says the appointment of
Charles Upper as representative of
Canada at the convention about to be
held in Washington is calculated to ex-
cite much suspicion wherever he is
known and create profound uneasiuess
among all who desire to see the ex-
change of commodities between the
United States and Canada made more
free than it is at present. No one who
knows him will imagine that he goes to
the convention to maintain the rights
or guard the interests of Canada.
People will ask whom and what
will he represent at Washington
MOnOpolists of all Kinds, men who de
sire to extort money to which they
have no right from the people of Can
ada by means of an act of Parliament,
are now the main proprietors and sup
pOrters of the Dominion Government.
They are opposed to,any treaty or az
rangement that would break down any
part of the system that brings them
wealth, and Sir Charles may be re-
garded as their representative and
champion in the convention of all these
mOnODOlists, "